linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MIPS: fix memory reservation for non-usermem setups

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Date:   Fri, 12 Mar 2021 16:19:34 +0100
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To:     Ilya Lipnitskiy <ilya.lipnitskiy@...il.com>
Cc:     Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>,
        Jinyang He <hejinyang@...ngson.cn>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Youling Tang <tangyouling@...ngson.cn>,
        Tobias Wolf <dev-NTEO@...ace.de>,
        Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@...s.com>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: fix memory reservation for non-usermem setups

On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 11:40:30AM -0800, Ilya Lipnitskiy wrote:
> From: Tobias Wolf <dev-NTEO@...ace.de>
> 
> Commit 67a3ba25aa95 ("MIPS: Fix incorrect mem=X@Y handling") introduced a new
> issue for rt288x where "PHYS_OFFSET" is 0x0 but the calculated "ramstart" is
> not. As the prerequisite of custom memory map has been removed, this results
> in the full memory range of 0x0 - 0x8000000 to be marked as reserved for this
> platform.

and where is the problem here ?

Thomas.

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